Bottle.



PATENTED SEPT. 13, 1904.

J. PITZPATRIGK.

BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE16,'1903.

NO MODEL.

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Wihwooeo UNTTED STATES Patented September 13, 1904.

JAMES FITZPATRICK, OF PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 769,894, datedSeptember 13, 1904.

Application filed June 16, 1903.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES FITZPATRIOK, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Peekskill, in the county of Westchester and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottles,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to non-refillable bottles, but not exclusively.

One of its objects is to provide means whereby the ordinarysiphon-bottle may be made a convenience for dispensing liquors or fluidsthat are uncharged with a gas that aflords a pressure for expelling themfrom the bottle; and another object is to make a siphon-bottlepractically non-refillable.

These objects are attained by the means set forth in this specificationand the accompanying drawings, in which like parts are indicated bysimilar letters and figures throughout the several views.

Figure I is an elevation of a siphon-bottle in cross section. showing myinvention attached. Fig. II illustrates an automatic valve. Fig. IIIisabottom View of extensions on the siphon-head of the bottle; Fig. IVshows in elevation the particular parts represented in Fig. III. Fig. Vrepresents provision made in the siphon-head for the attachment of aseal. Fig. VI is an enlarged representation of the means of securing anelastic bulb and seal to the bottle.

Fig. I represents an ordinary mineral-water bottle provided with asiphon-head consisting of two principal parts I) and I. Only enough ofthe details of the head is shown to make it clear that no particularform of siphon-head is essential in the application of this invention;that any head that effects the same purpose as the one shown may beemployed. The internal arrangements consist of the tubes 5, extending tothe'bottom of the bottle. The means of suspension and of securing thetube in place is shownby the metallic piece 2, and the packing 3constitutes the seal between the said metallic piece and the mouth ofthe bottle. All of these parts are held together by the screwing of thehead 6 upon the split nut 4. The valve 1, giving Serial No. 161,670. (Nomodel.)

exit to the contents of the bottle, is manipulated by the siphon-handle.

In order to put a seal upon the siphon, so that the bottle cannot berefilled through its month without the fact of its having been refilled,being revealed, holes 5 and 6 are provided through the edges of theparts 6 and 4, as shown on an enlarged scale in Fig. V. When these twoparts are screwed together, thetwo holes would be made to register onewith the other. A wire 7 may then be passed through the holes and a sealbe impressed upon the ends of the wire, as at n, Fig. I.

Fig. III illustrates a means of attaching the seal that will leave thewire to which the seal may be attached more exposed, so that a wirecould not be cut and rejoined, the joint being concealed within theholes 5 6. Lugs t t, as in Figs. III, IV, may be provided upon the parts5 4:, respectively, and holes through these lugs would receive theseal-wire.

I/Vhen the bottle is to be used for fluids that are not gas-charged, Iadd the devices shown upon the lower part of the neck of the bottle. Itconsists of a mouthpiece 1:, having the usual bottle-rim 0, as in Figs.I and II, made or blown in the neck of the bottle and provided with aninner tube extension 7i, preferably extending to very near the bottom ofthe bottle. An elastic bulb c, Fig. I, has secured in its neck avalve-piece (Z, Figs. I and II, which may be of hard rubber, glass,porcelain, or any suitable non-corrosive metal or material. It containsa valve 6, which is shown closed in Fig. I and open in Fig. II. In thelatter figure the valve-stem is shown to be provided with a spring 1 tokeep the valve normally closed. This may be a floating valve, so thatthe liquid in the bottle would cause it to remain as in Fig. I whenthere was no pressure from within of gas or air.

The neck of the bulb extends beyond this valve-piece a suflicient lengthto be made to close over the neck 4) of the bottle, as in Figs. I andII. The hole 0 in the tube It would be preferably small in diameter, sothat it would admit thearnount of air or gas required readily, but wouldpass fluids very slowly. When the elastic bulb is placed on the neck 1;,as shown,

there is a space f, Fig. I, for the play of the Valve 0. The surface ofthe neck at its outlet would preferably be made just a little uneven,undulations being shown in Figs. 1 and II, so that only a small space orspaces, as 10, "Fig. II, would be left when the valve is opened for thepassage of air or gas into the tube-passage The bulb is secured to thebottle-neck by a wire 7 8, Figs. I, II, and VI, the ends 9 of the wire,as in Fig. VI, having a seal impressed upon them, as at Z, Fig. I.

There is a small air-hole it in the bulb 0. The ball of the hand or of afinger is to be placed over this hole when the bulb is to be compressedand removed to allow the bulb to expand.

The bottle as thus prepared may be filled with a liquid free from anyexpansive gas. To draw out the liquid, a pressure must be establishedwithin the bottle, which is accomplished by forcing air in by means ofthe bulb. When a pressure is established, the liquid is withdrawnthrough the siphon, the same as charged liquids are drawn.

When the bottle contains any liquid and is sealed in the manner shown,its genuineness may be relied upon. To refill the bottle withoutbreaking the seals would require such an amount of skill and time asmake its being refilled a doubtful undertaking. Its refilling, however,is practically impossible. To use the bottle without the seals would beto cast a doubt upon the genuineness of the contents.

Without reference, however, to its refilling qualities the bottle thusprepared for uncharged liquids would serve a convenient method ofserving such liquids. For such use exclusively a special bottle can beprepared without the tube h, as well as the sealing features.

It is obvious that, if desirable, a gas instead of air may be forcedwithin the bottle and that a substitute for the air-bulb, as a pump, maybe employed for charging the bottle.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent,

The combination of a bottle, a siphon-head comprising a body andsecuring-nut on the mouth of the bottle, coincident holes through thesecuring-nut and body of the siphon-head, a wire through the said holes,a seal on the said wire, an extra outlet on the bottle with a tubeextension to the inner bottom of the bottle, an elastic bulb, attachedto the extra outlet, a valve in the neck of the bulb, a wire around theneck of the bulb to secure it to thebottle-outlet, and a seal on thewire.

Signed at Peekskill, in the county of Westchester and State of New York,this 12th day of June, A. D. 1903.

JAMES FITZPATRICK.

Witnesses? GILBERT T. TAYLOR, THOMAS GALLERY.

